I will admit to doing part of this myself.. But I have spoken to a number of players on this point..
It seems that this new award system promotes the unnecessary bashing of defence.. not for profit (what the game is about) but purely for the points attack value it gives a player to put him/her on top of the attack table..

In my opinion this will drive many players into VM or just quit.. Is there an alternative to this...?

the defender table is also misnamed ... it really just records whose been beaten up the most .... not who has the best defence.... which would probably be a better table/score,,,,

also the highest climber is a very silly table if no account is taken pf the relative movement involved...

ie going from pos 2000 to 1000 is very different from going from pos 10 to 9....

and ps this is war .... profit doesn't come into it...

domination is the name of the game ...

if you want profit ... play an organised crime game or a business simulation...

defense reduction is a legitimate and necessaru tactic...

I know Gozar admitted this as above but how many others do this just for the kudos of being the top attackers? Imo loads.....especially in Massacre lol....so I ask that top defender and attacker tables get removed aswell ...the only ones I care to note are the alliance tables.......

a think it should add new table where it calculate how much players recyled df
or add table how much resurses each allince spend on mines ,buildings ,fleet

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I think the attacker and raider tables should stay. But it would be nice to include the profit made in the attackers table. It'd be very clear then who hits for profit and who hits just for the sake of being at the top of the attacker's table.

lowfatspread wrote: domination is the name of the game ...

defense reduction is a legitimate and necessaru tactic...

To the first comment - while domination may be a necessary and vital part of the game, ANY D-BAG with a fleet can defense bash and the "domination" you speak of is virtually meaningless if they can't gain something for their effort, but rather become the butt end of a joke or an easy setup for a ninja.

To the second comment - you are absolutely correct. Reducing defense is perfectly valid and legitimate. However, like I said above, any imbecile can take out defense to no end. It lacks skill, class, honor, and finesse in my opinion. Somebody should actually have something to gain instead of just something to hit.

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I do think a ranking system for DF collected or Loss / Gain ratio or something along those lines would be nice. Separate the men from the boys so to speak. Is there a thread for it in the Suggestions forum? If not, there should be.

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The Defender table should be changed as well - what good does it to to see who took the most damage, especially while it gives others a cue that a certain player is offline or down on their luck - nothing like kicking someone while they are down, right?

Choke wrote:I do think a ranking system for DF collected or Loss / Gain ratio or something along those lines would be nice. Separate the men from the boys so to speak. Is there a thread for it in the Suggestions forum? If not, there should be.

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The Defender table should be changed as well - what good does it to to see who took the most damage, especially while it gives others a cue that a certain player is offline or down on their luck - nothing like kicking someone while they are down, right?

I totally agree with these ideas.. foremost the defenders table is more or less the Big Looser table.. as for a DF table something that is not reflected in raids/profit at present... I am not blowing my own trumpet but in the 5 weeks these tables have been in place.. I have collected 10 billion in DF...

I have one question to ask...Does anyone know how to delete the quick chat on the alliance page.. ours is now up to page 25 or so.. what is the point of seeing back 4 weeks + of messages.. there needs to be away to delete this..the same way as in the message tables... can it be linked to Circular Messages and be deleted when they are..?

a think you cant delete it mate zorg dint put delete button

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We could imply a more sophisticated approach in calculation of defense into Defender/Attacker stats.